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“ JUNCUS TENAX”? 81 
Fortunately the possession of the manuscript and specimens of 
t. Banks and 
a 
near the J. vaginatus R. Br. with which I am inclined to includ 
them. Forster’s specimen in Herb. Banks was subsequently 
named J. glaucus by Dryander, a fact which accounts for the above- 
mentioned statement on Wikstrom’s authority. 
2. Juncus renax Banks & Sol. in Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo 
(ed. 2), ii, 251 (1794). ; 
In the second edition of Alexander Russell’s Natural History . 
of Aleppo, 1.c., we find among the plants a new species, ‘‘ Juncus 
tenax ; culmo nudo stricto striato, panicula laterali rara, squamis 
radicalibus nitidis.” 
second edition, ‘revised, enlarged and illustrated with 
notes,” we owe to his brother Patrick Russell, who in his preface 
and notes gives the full story of the plants. ‘‘ The catalogue of 
plants,’ he says, viii, “will be found to have undergone 
brought from Syria.’ Mr. 
mentioned association of Banks with ee 
out of the specimens is quite in a li os 
goes to prove that “ Banks & Sol.,” and not merely ‘‘Sol.,”” must be 
